The Blood of Dead Americans

The recent health care hearings run by senator Baucus were a sham that showed our Congress is really owned by corporations like big pharma and not the people. The failure to not have even one voice for single-payer health care on the panel shows that the Senator and his cabal are in the hip pocket of corporate health. Those of us who support single-payer were reduced to being represented by brave members of the audience who spoke out against this omission. They were duly arrested. All of the other industrialized nations of the world have a nationalized system of health care. It is estimated that 22,000 people die each year due to lack of health insurance (Institute of Medicine 2006). Senator Baucus, you have the blood of dead Americans on your hands.